Gado-gado

Gado-gado

Gado-gado in Jakarta topped with emping cracker
Alternative names	Lotek (Sundanese and Javanese)
Course	main course
Place of origin	Indonesia
Region or state	Jakarta, West Java,
Serving temperature	room temperature
Main ingredients	various vegetables in peanut sauce topped with krupuk
Variations	Karedok, a raw vegetable version of Gado-gado

Gado-gado (Indonesian or Betawi), also known as lotek (Sundanese and Javanese), is an Indonesian salad of slightly boiled, blanched or steamed vegetables and hard-boiled eggs, fried tofu and tempeh, and lontong (rice wrapped in a banana leaf), served with a peanut sauce dressing.

The term gado or the verb menggado means to consume something without rice. Gado-gado in Indonesian literally means "mix-mix" since it is made of rich mixture of vegetables such as potatoes, longbeans, bean sprouts, spinach, chayote, bitter gourd, corn and cabbage, with tofu, tempeh and hard-boiled eggs, all mixed in peanut sauce dressing, sometimes also topped with krupuk and sprinkles of fried shallots. Gado-gado is different from lotek atah or karedok which uses raw vegetables. Another similar dish is the Javanese pecel.